Overview

The Accounting Team is looking for a Payroll Manager to join our rapidly growing FinTech Company.  The Payroll Manager will play a critical role in helping the team meet its payroll and financial reporting obligations. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, process driven, technically sound and a great team player.

About Paxos

Paxos is on a mission to enable the movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky – supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it.

As a regulated blockchain infrastructure company, we use technology to tokenize, custody, trade, and settle assets for enterprise clients like PayPal, Novi, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers. Paxos is a top-funded blockchain company, with more than $500 million in total funding from leading investors like OakHC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal Ventures, and Declaration Partners. Together, we empower today’s financial leaders to build a more open, trusted economy.

As a Payroll Manager, you’ll get to: 

  • Implement, maintain, and review payroll processing systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.
  • Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
  • Prepare and maintain accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.
  • Oversight in payroll related input into month and quarter-end close activities; including but not limited to understanding payroll GL reporting, journal entries and reconciliations.
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices.
  • Facilitate audits by providing records and documentation to auditors.
  • Identify and recommend updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures.
  • Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency for enterprises and investors, our regulation-first approach, and more!

Your experience should include:

  • 6+ years experience with payroll
  • Bachelor degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field of study.
  • Experience with major Payroll and ERP systems (e.g. ADP, Workday, NetSuite)
  • Strong understanding of full cycle payroll
  • Payroll experience in US, with the capacity to learn other countries
  • Strong multi-state tax and payroll compliance experience
  • Experience with U.S. federal and state taxation relating to equity compensation.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate results under strict deadlines.
  • Highest degree of integrity and confidentiality.
  • Experience with Shareworks or similar equity administration software.
  • Highly analytical with working knowledge of general payroll protocols and accounting principles
  • Concise and effective communicator, verbal and written, with teammates and various levels of leadership as well as external parties
  • Excels in growth environments; versatile, capable of managing multiple projects and able to manage project plans, dependencies, and milestones
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

What you’ll love about Paxos:

Paxos has consistently been recognized on the Forbes Fintech 50, CB Insights Blockchain 50 and Built In’s “Best Places to Work” lists. Paxonians have significant ownership and impact on our business, as well as benefits like company equity, health insurance, family leave, a quarterly stipend for development, a stipend for home office setup and unlimited PTO. From team product demos and virtual lounge and learns to care packages and an active Slack #shoutouts channel, there are countless opportunities to connect and make your mark. Help us continue to build a new, open financial system from one of our three offices or right from your home!